Night of Loveless NightsRobert Desnos (trans. Lewish Warsh) The fiftieth anniversary edition of New York School poet Lewis Warsh's long out of print translation of a major poem by Robert Desnos, pillar of French Surrealism, presented alongside the original text. Desnos's Night of Loveless Nights written in tribute to legendary French chanteuse Yvonne George in 1926 is a maelstrom of romantic despair, political upswell, and psychedelic irony. John Ashbery's claim that Frank

John Berger

'Olivia Elias

Epische gedichten over het leven van een jonge vrouw in Nederland

the heroine of The Arabian Nights who

across such a bewildering range

Zijn selectie begint in 1945 en beperkt zich tot poëzie die geschreven is binnen het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden

I would extend to him the well-known welcome that Emerson directed to Whitman nearly two centuries ago: I greet you at the beginning of a great career

filled with desiring bodies

“exile has no form but leaves a trace

The poetic voice emerges in Montevideo

Is het gevaar dat moet worden afgewend ingebeeld of reëel

altijd vrij zijn de gedichten van De Kom verzameld